Support for sun-print frames



(No Model.)

A. J. DAWDY. SUPPORT FOR SUN PRINT FRAMES.

lXwmemo UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANDREIV J. DAIVDY, OF GOSIIEN INDIANA.

SUPPORT FOR SUN-PRINT FRAMES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 433,333, dated July 29, 1890.

Application filed August 9, 1889. Serial No. 320,226. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ANDREW .I. DAWDY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Goshen, in the county of Elkhart and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Supports for Sun-Print Frames; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in devices for supporting sun-print frames; and it is an improvement on the device for which I filed an application for Letters Patent on June 20, 1889, Serial No. 314,945; and it consists in the novel construction and arrangement of the supporting arm, in combination with a bearing-plate, housing, and a registering-wheel, all as will be hereinafter fully explained.

The annexed drawings, to which reference is made, fully illustrate my invention, in which 1 Figure 1 represents a vertical sectional View of my device. Fig. 2 is a rear view of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail view, and Fig. 4 is a face view, of the registering-wheel detached from the housing.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, A designates a sun-print frame of the usual constructiomhaving the back board a in two parts and hinged together at b, and the locking-spring bars 0 c are on each section of the back board. 7

B represents the housing for the registering-wheel and bent ends of the supportingrod. Said housing consists of the side plates (Z (Z, having openings eand openings ff, which serve as bearings for the pivoted supportingbar, and a front plate having at its upper edge a notch h, which serves as a stop for frame different inclinations.

the register-wheel C. The supporting-arm D is constructed in U shaped form, the upper end of which is bent inwardly, as at '6, and enters the opening f f, after which the extreme endj is bent outward and enters one of the openings in the side plates. Thisspringsupport I) may be placed in different inclinations to support the frame, thereby giving the It will be seen that when it is desired to incline the frame the arms 7.: 76 of the support are pressed inwardly, thus disengaging the ends j from the opening, when the support can be adjusted, and when so adjusted the ends j snap in one of the openings, thereby holding the support in place.

The register-wheel is designed for recording the number of prints taken, and the same is pivoted at Z to the housing. The operator after each print simply moves one of the points of the wheel forward, or to the left, until his finger comes in contact with the stop a of the notch 7i, thus hiding the former number and exposing the following number; and it is simple in operation, durable, and at the same time cheap to manufacture.

IIaving described my invention, what I claim, and desire-to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

The combination, with the frame, of the housing having the openings, the spring U- shaped arm, bent as shown and formed integral, and the registering-wheel pivoted to the housing, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ANDREW J. DAWDY.

lVitnesses:

W. L. ALBRIGI-IT, E. E. AsH. 

